I am amazed that there are not any bash like instructions for the high level languages like pascal and C. Bash instructions, such as sed, grep, awk are extremely powerful for manipulating data. With pascal, I have to mickey mouse around with several instructions to get the same results that can be done with one or two bash instructions. Am I missing something with the higher languages? There is something called JCL, but I don't know if it still exist and if JCL has data manipulating instructions.